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-- IN THIS ISSUE --
IBM, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BUILD 'ICONIC GRID'
$48 MILLION COMPUTING COMPLEX AVAILABLE
GGF BEGINS SEARCH FOR SUCCESSOR TO CATLETT
Special Features
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GGF BEGINS SEARCH FOR SUCCESSOR TO CATLETT
- The Global Grid Forum Steering Group is initiating a search for a new GGF
chair as a successor to Charlie Catlett, who will complete a five-year term
as founding chair of GGF in October of this year. Catlett will continue his
role as a member of the GGF Steering Group and GGF editor of Grid standards.
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NOTE FROM CHARLIE CATLETT AT GGF10
- The GGF10 meeting here in Berlin has been quite busy with over 600 people.
A lot of discussions about out Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) being
more closely coupled with Web services through a new set of Web services
specs.
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PHATBOT TROJAN USES PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS TO INFECT
- A new, sophisticated hacker tool that models itself after controversial
peer-to-peer networking like Kazaa is being carefully watched by computer
security experts and government officials.
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IBM, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BUILD 'ICONIC GRID'
- The University of Oregon, Electrical Geodesics Inc (EGI) and IBM announced
a new project that uses Grid computing, Linux and IBM supercomputer
technology to speed and improve the diagnosis of brain conditions, including
Epilepsy, stroke and depression.
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OPEN SOURCE AND JBOSS: A THREAT TO TOP VENDORS?
- Though JBoss's software does not include all the features that IBM's
WebSphere or BEA's Web-Logic does, it has the companies worried over its
open source strategy for corporate customers. This new funding could make
JBoss a serious contender in the market alongside IBM and BEA.
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STATES WEIGH WARNING TO PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS
- In what could become an escalation in the war against peer-to-peer
networks, the highest ranking law enforcement officers in the individual
states are preparing to weigh in on the debate over the popular services.
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THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT Gridtoday NEWS ITEMS
By Rolf McClellan
- Following are brief evaluations of recent news stories from Gridtoday.
Rolf McClellan has nearly 20 years of experience in the network and computer
industry.
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SDSC'S DATA ACCESS TECHNOLOGY NAMED "BIGGEST AND FASTEST"
- The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced that its Data Access
technology has received the "Biggest, Fastest in the West" award from the
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC).
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, IBM TO BUILD LARGEST CAMPUS GRID
- UT Grid, led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT, will
unite the vast computational resources of the nation's largest university
campus, boasting more than 50,000 students and some 20,000 faculty and staff
members.
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TELECOM FOCUS SESSION AT GGF10 IN BERLIN
By Uwe Harms
- In the telco session, more than 80 participants discussed the topic of
Grid and service providing. There have been different approaches concerning
the research and scientific networks contrary to the requests of that
community to the commercial telcos, where they should deliver new software
and billing systems.
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OPEN UNIVERSAL DECISION-MAKING, TOTALING THEORY, TECH MODEL
By K.S. Venkatram
- In this article I will proceed with the mechanism of the Nth'Connection,
the effectiveness in working with remote services and systems.
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$48 MILLION COMPUTING COMPLEX AVAILABLE
- The major resources in a $48 million project to provide high-performance
computing in Alberta and British Columbia are now available for general use
by the research community, scientists heading up the WestGrid project
announced.
Systems/Enterprise
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BARC USES LINUX TO BUILD GRID COMPUTING NETWORK
- Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) has successfully deployed a
full-scale Grid network at its campus, bringing the commercial enterprise
model closer to reality.
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MIRROR IMAGE SELECTS EQUINIX TO EXPAND GLOBAL NETWORK
- Mirror Image selected Equinix's Silicon Valley, New York and Washington,
D.C., area network-rich Internet Business Exchange (IBX) centers for this
expansion in order to provide customers with increased capacity and superior
network connectivity.
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HP FURTHERS ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE WITH TruLogica ACQUISITION
- The acquisition is not uncommon for HP, who has acquired several smaller
companies within the last few months. HP's major competitors, Sun
Microsystems and EMC, also have purchased their fair shares of companies
recently.
Applications
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AccuRev INTEGRATES WITH SUN JAVA STUDIO
- Together, advanced capabilities in AccuRev/CM and Java Studio Standard
allow developers to manage, control and protect development artifacts
graphically in Java Studio's powerful IDE.
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TeraGrid BREAKS DOWN RESEARCH BARRIERS
- The $50 million-plus effort announced by the National Science Foundation
three years ago is creating the most powerful supercomputing facility for
open scientific research in the world.
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VIRTUAL SUPERCOMPUTERS JOIN HUNT FOR NEW DRUGS
- Networks of Internet-linked computers -- many in people's homes -- are
breaking the constraints that tight budgets and a lack of number-crunching
power once imposed on researchers' quests for important new medicines.
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HP SOLUTIONS LET SPEEDERA DELIVER 'OUT OF THIS WORLD' CONTENT
- HP announced that Santa Clara-based Speedera Networks -- a leading global
provider of on-demand distributed application and content delivery services
-- has deployed Linux-based HP ProLiant DL360 servers to enhance its network
performance and capacity.
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GRID COMPUTING SYSTEM ADOPTED BY J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK
- J.P. Morgan Chase Investment Bank is attempting to harness the computing
power of seven separate financial risk management systems in order to reduce
cost and strengthen service for internal customers.
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TeraGrid TARGETS INCLUDE GALAXY FORMATION, POLLUTION CLEANUP
- The first computing resources of TeraGrid became fully available for
scientific use in January, and some of the first applications will be
tracking the formation of galaxies in the early universe and finding the
most efficient and least expensive ways to clean up groundwater pollution.
Breaking News
- Security
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Cisco Systems To Acquire Twingo Systems
SecureBox Servers Meet FIPS-197 AES-Encryption Levels
MesoCom Announces New Solutions For Managing P2P File Sharing
- Platforms
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New IBM Servers Redefine Standards
IBM Unveils AMD Opteron-Based Workstation
Future Supermicro SuperServers To Support 64-bit Extensions
- Networking
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N.C. State Scientists Develop Breakthrough Internet Protocol
Chiaro Networks' Enstara IP/MPLS Platform Selected By CERN
EVERGROW Research Project Seeks To Devise Internet Of Future
Foundry Establishes 10-GbE Price-Performance Leadership
GigaBeam Announces First Two Products As Alternative To Fiber
InfiniCon Demos Oracle 10g Cluster At Server Blade Summit
MiLAN Introduces New Gigabit Ethernet Switch Family
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition
to focus on the emerging market for commercial business
applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers
We are looking for high-level speakers from
commercial organizations to speak on
applications and implementation of Grid computing
- Storage
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BakBone Announces Comprehensive Support For Oracle 10g
BEA Technology Can Melt Frozen Data Across Enterprise
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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Unicenter WSDM Management Pack Helps Ensures Reliability
Jamcracker Enables Pivot Path Solution For SUSE LINUX
NetPro Announces New Management Packs For MOM 2000
nVision Introduces Distributed .NET Exception Mgmt Solution
Perforce Integrates Fast SCM W/ IBM WebSphere Studio, Eclipse
Enterprise Edition Of Poseidon For UML Available Online
- General
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CTC Opens Second Session Of Windows HPC Workshop
Oracle Reports Fiscal Q3 Earnings Per Share Of 12 Cents
Oracle University Introduces Oracle Database 10g Curriculum
Oracle Executive Paul Ciandrini Hired As Plumtree COO
SweGrid Gives Researchers Computer With Superpower
Quote Of The Week
"Frankly, at the moment, I think we are limited more by our imaginations than we are by the technology." -- Mike Brady, Professor of Information Engineering, Oxford
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